Endeavor Health Services CCBHC in Buffalo - Endeavor Health Services, a nonprofit, New York State-certified CCBHC will increase the number of Western New York adults and children with serious mental illness and substance use disorders who have access to and utilize person-centered, evidence-based, integrated mental and substance use disorder treatment. The project will enhance the responsiveness and quality of intensive, integrated mental and substance use disorder treatment for justice-involved and other complex individuals. The project will serve an estimated 1,200 people in Year 1, 1,600 in Year 2, and 2,050 un-duplicated individuals during the project’s two-year period.
The proposed project will implement all of the CCBHC required activities at the scope and standards outlined in the CCBHC Criteria Compliance Checklist. The project will accomplish the following objectives.
• Strengthen embedded outreach and client referral capacity at area police departments, homeless services providers, child protective services, and specialty court systems, resulting in 1,700 new client enrollments during the project period.
• Increase the number of primary clinics in which behavioral health teams are collocated, from 3 currently to 6 by the conclusion of the project, resulting in 100 new client enrollments during the project period.
• Expand the number and use of registered nurses from 3 to 6, and expand the number and use of licensed practical nurses from 2 to 5, throughout the organization to support enhanced treatment quality: (1) team-based care with primary care clinics for co-morbid chronic illness (125 served); (2) care management for MAT (100 served); (3) screening and referral for those with HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STDs, (130 served); (4) clinical monitoring of medication side effects (100 served); and (5) vaccination administration (100 served)
• Extend ACT-level service intensity and treatment modality to 130 individuals diagnosed with severe, chronic mental health and substance abuse disorders.